Lead Engineer – Boone – Roadtrippers

Job Description:

Roadtrippers is a rapidly growing team, recently acquired by TH2, a Thor/THL joint venture.  The Boone team ensures that Roadtrippers and all of its data partners have access to the most interesting possible database of millions of attractions, national/state parks, diners, hotels and everything else that travelers love.  With wide distribution of its data, Boone is generating unprecedented insight into audience and regional travel intent, patterns, and behaviors.

Roadtrippers headquarters is located in the historic Over-the-Rhine district in Cincinnati, Ohio. Remote opportunities are available for highly qualified applicants.

Job Responsibilities:

Roadtrippers is looking for a Lead Engineer for Boone, our team dedicated to place data management and distribution.  The Boone API helps to simplify the complexities of travel discovery at scale.  As the Lead Engineer, you will work with both internal and external stakeholders to build the best APIs for finding and serving up great place data.  You will need to take complex geo-data concepts and distill them into powerful abstractions that are quick and easy for other developers to implement.  You will help make important architectural decisions for our data pipeline that ingests several TBs of data and synthesizes them into a coherent view of the world.  You will need to make sure that our APIs are robust and scalable.  You will help us architect and build advanced web apps for geo data management, that work for both the internal user and the casual small business user.  Over time, you will be expected to grow and mentor the Boone engineering team.

Join us to empower the world’s travelers and travel companies!

Job Requirements:

• A love of travel, especially road trips!  Knowledge of RV’ing is a plus!
• 5 years professional development experience
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)
• Experience growing or working on a highly available web service at scale
• Some experience with data engineering / data pipelines (e.g. in Apache Spark, etc) and working with data science teams to roll out solutions
• Experience with full stack web development and versatility across client, server and database
• Comfortable using Git and Linux command line
• Understanding of native web app architecture and modern frameworks
• Familiarity with mapping SDKs and geospatial data
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a plus
• Our tech stack includes: Ruby on Rails, React, Mapbox, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Elasticsearch, Redis, AWS, Ansible, Spark and Airflow.  Experience is beneficial, not required.

Benefits:

Lunches and snacks
Drinks, kegs, and snacks available in the office. Team lunches on Tuesdays.

Unlimited vacation
This is a partnership of people that want to build something great. We trust you to pull your own weight and manage your own time.

Team led task management
Everyone on the team gets to decide what we work on to achieve our goals. We work in small, self-organized teams who determine the best tactics to support the vision and strategy set by leadership.

Path to the top
We operate on merit. If you consistently work hard and improve your own knowledge set, there is no position that isn’t open to you.

Great healthcare
We pride ourselves on offering a multitude of healthcare options for you and your family, including healthcare (PPO & HDHP), dental, vision and more. We absorb the majority of the costs which means a much higher take-home pay for you.

Highly competitive salary
We are in the same range as everyone else in town, plus all the benefits.

The tools for your job
A computer and all of the software you need to be successful in your role.

Note: We do not work with external recruiters or placing agencies, so please don’t contact us.

How To Apply:

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